Seder Ritual Committee Records
Scope and Content Note
The collection documents the activities of the Seder Ritual Committee, and includes correspondence, publicity, orders, and copies of the Seder Ritual of Remembrance.
Dates
- undated, 1952-1969
Creator
- Seder Ritual Committee (Organization)
Language of Materials
The collection is in English.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open to all researchers, except items that may be restricted due to their fragility, or privacy.
Use Restrictions
No permission is required to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection, as long as the usage is scholarly, educational, and non-commercial. For inquiries about other usage, please contact the Director of Collections and Engagement at mmeyers@ajhs.org.
For reference questions, please email: inquiries@cjh.org
Historical Note
The Seder Ritual Committee was founded in 1952 by the American Jewish Congress, and lead by the historian Israel Goldberg (Rufus Learsi). The task of the committee was to compose a prayer memorializing the Holocaust. The Seder Ritual of Remembrance, the prayer they composed, was broadly distributed to various Jewish organizations, press, and synagogues.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (1 manuscript box)
Abstract
The Seder Ritual Committee was created to compose a prayer memorializing the Holocaust. This collection documents their activities, and includes correspondence, publicity, orders, and copies of the Seder Ritual of Remembrance.
Arrangement
This Collection is arranged into a single series, and the folders are ordered according to folder title, and date.
Physical Location
Located in AJHS New York, NY
- Title
- Guide to the Records of the Seder Ritual Committee, undated, 1952-1969 I-50
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid by Michael Montalbano as part of the CJH Holocaust Resource Initiative, made possible by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany
- Date
- © 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- January 2021: EHyman: post-ASpace migration cleanup.
Repository Details
Part of the American Jewish Historical Society Repository
